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Crown Roast

A roast made from a full loin of meat, wrapped in salt pork and cooked with potato chips or creamed peas.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Meat and pork are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,208 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Crown Roast

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Ask your butcher to prepare a full loin and trim the rib bones to a uniform length.

  2. Roll the loin into a circle and tie it securely.

  3. Wrap a slice of salt pork around each bone to prevent burning.

Roast and serve

  1. Baste frequently with the fat in the pan.

  2. Cook for 15 minutes per pound.

  3. Cover each bone with a paper ruffle.

  4. Fill the center with potato chips.

  5. Garnish with timbale cases filled with creamed peas or pea timbales.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Meat + porktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,208 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  2. Pork + peastop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,589 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Meat + peastop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together573 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Pork + potato chiptop 31% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together12 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Meat + potato chiptop 35% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5 recipes

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Full loin of meat
Main protein that firms, browns and forms the crown's structure as it roasts.
Salt pork
Renders fat that bastes the meat and shields the exposed rib bones from burning.

The step that matters

Cook for 15 minutes per pound. Time by weight is only an estimate, and the roast can overcook quickly. Lean loin turns dry and tough past the point of doneness, so check its internal temperature before serving.

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, pork, potato chip):

  1. Peanutfits better
  2. Sesamefits better
  3. Almondfits about as well
  4. Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, pork, potato chip. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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